Does a search warrant that was executed and then challenged by the Court of Appeal have a right to disclose the information obtained?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Re Parhar, 2017 BCSECCOM 286 (CanLII):
The Applicants cite Attorney General of Nova Scotia et al v. MacIntyre, 1982 CanLII 14 (SCC), [1982] 1 S.C.R. 175 for the proposition that, in the criminal law context, where a search warrant has been executed and then is subsequently challenged, the subject of the warrant has a right to disclosure of the information used to obtain the warrant. They say that that principle should apply in this administrative context.
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